ATHLETIC ROUND-UP

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Football plays for the New England Championship this Saturday as the 2016 fall season comes to a close.

Trinity-Pawling football has officially clinched the Erickson League for the first time since 2005. The Pride were a perfect 4-0 half way through the season and with the exception of Avon Old Farms had not really been challenged. In week five, Trinity-Pawling took care of Hotchkiss 37-7, highlighted by a 36-yard receiving touchdown by Jonathan Girard ’17 and an 81-yard quarterback run from Brandon Harris ’17.

Next up for the Pride was a 37-13 victory over last year’s champs, Salisbury. The Knights were able to defeat the Pride in 2015, but this time around the story was much different. Trinity-Pawling’s defense was the hero in this game as Jake Meade ’18 recovered a fumble and returned it for a touchdown, followed up by an interception by Will Dencker ’17 that was returned for yet another defensive score. Dakota Harvey ’17 finished with two rushing touchdowns and over 100 yards on the ground.

There was now only one team standing between the Pride and the Founder’s Championship. The Brunswick Bruins came into Pawling for a night game on November 5th that packed the stands with hundreds of screaming fans. Trinity-Pawling got off to an early lead due to an 85-yard run from Ray Davis ’18 on the Pride’s first offensive play. The Bruins would take the lead early in the second half, but the Pride would fight back, and a 30-yard touchdown reception by Cam Tillman ’18 would clinch the game (31-20) and the championship for the Blue and Gold.

The football team would lose to Kent on November 11th, but with a 7-1 regular season the Pride won the Founder’s League outright, and will now face Choate Rosemary Hall for the New England Championship on November 19th.

Lower football finished 4-1 led by outstanding play from Connor Bastidas ’18 and Brandon Lombardo ’20.

The varsity cross-country team finished 5-4 in dual meets highlighted by a home tri-meet win in mid-October over Millbrook and Hotchkiss. Will Estony ’17 won the race and broke 18 minutes for the first time in his career on the tough Trinity-Pawling course. The drastically improved Nate Tanner ’18 was able to place sixth overall and second for the Pride.

To end the season, the team finished sixth at the Founder’s League Championships and 13th at New Englands. Will Estony ’17 placed tenth at the Founder’s to earn All League Honors. Pride teammates Nate Tanner ’18, Luke Jorgensen ’17, Hunter Olstein ’17 and Hunter Barbua ’19 were all able to place in the top 40 runners on the day.

Varsity soccer finished with a record of 5-10-2 led by senior captains Joe Morley, Jack Makris and Moey Lardy. The Pride were able to come away with wins over Millbrook, Westminster, Brunswick, Hopkins and St. Lukes.

Most excitably was a 4-2 victory over Millbrook on October 29th at David N. Coratti Field. The Pride got off to an early lead when Matt Cerny ’17 scored a goal that deflected off a Millbrook defender. Joe Morley was then able to score a hat-trick including two penalty shots to secure the win for the Pride. Most interestingly to watch was Trinity-Pawling defender Jack Makris shutting down one of the best high school players in New England for nearly the entirety of the game. Phinn Adams ’18 was also a factor in the game.

JV soccer finished 2-11-3 on the season led by goal scorer Justin Lampert ’17 and goalie Marc Welch ’18. Third’s soccer concluded 4-5-1 led my Matt Shultz ’20 and Owen Sheppard ’20.

Fourth soccer ended 6-2-1, highlighted by a suburb team collective and the goal keeping abilities of Jackson Breton ’19 and Austin Anderson ’20. Middle School Soccer came away with a lot of tie games to finish 1-2-6. Chris Devanny ’21 and Jack Kalin ’21 led the squad in goals.

Roll Pride!